User:Youreawizardharry1992
Bio
[edit]Im a student, scuba diver, video gamer and lover of travel. I was born in the year 2000 in the Pacific Northwest. I am attending school to become a mechanical engineer - I like to use my hands and build things. I have many hobbies such as building large lego sets to cold water scuba diving. Scuba diving has gotten me into the niche group of underwater photographers and I like to produce videos of my dives and travels, and when not producing, I probably spend too much time on youtube.
Wikipedia is interesting to me because it has often been a source of information that I had been looking for, yet has a shadow following it with the reputation of that anyone can change an article. One of the latest hobbies I have been involved with is Lego, there have been hundreds upon hundreds of lego sets over the years and I don't imagine that there is a page for every single one. Therefore - I would be interested in being apart of creating a page for every Lego set ever created and over time that would most likely become a very big data base.
Article Evaluation
[edit]I have been very close to my grandfather for my entire life. I look up to him and admire what he does. When he became a certified scuba diver in the early 2000s knew that I had to become one myself. I became a certified diver in 2012 and since then, I have developed the skills of a great diver and have taken interests in the sub-hobbies of diving such as underwater videography. Underwater videography plays a vital role in entertainment industry and is widely used in many types of film making. This subject should have a well put together Wikipedia representation, given that, I visited the Underwater videography page on Wikipedia, and found three aspects of it worth commenting on: its incompleteness, its old age, and its insufficiency of citations.
Incompleteness
[edit]When I visited the page for the first time, I noticed the general lack of modern information. Many Wikipedia pages related to diving are up to date and well maintained, this one is a little less cared for. I know about many of the products marketed for underwater videography and this article lacks in acknowledgement of the modern equipment. The article mentions Ikelite which is one of the biggest manufactures of DSLR underwater housings, but it leaves out other brands such as Nauticam which is for hobbyists wanting a premium product and Gates which is marketed towards the professional.
Old age
[edit]If one were to posses all the facts and knowledge about underwater videography, there would certainly be thought that when upon reading - the article seems out of date. This is because it is. The article lacks in photos, and the photos that are being used are of outdated equipment which shows me that the article has had some neglect. When inspected a little more closely the articles history shows that it was created sixteen years ago and has about one hundred total edits.
Citations
[edit]This article is a prime example of what needs more citations. The reference section at the bottom has exactly ten references, and what references are given are very scarcely scattered about the article. Also, this article is ridden with unreferenced facts, opinions and bias. There are multiple facts with no reference and no citation. Overall, I would say this article needs to be completely fact checked and needs a complete overhaul of its reference section and its citations.
Conclusion
[edit]This article has the correct core elements to be a good Wikipedia article, but it would take some work to get it there. It needs work on its citations, it needs to be updated with all of todays modern information and when done it needs to be a complete article which has all correct, modern unbiased and factually proven information regarding the world of underwater videography.